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Heritage Auctions Runs Ad in New York Times
Heritage Auctions who is scheduled to run their second ever domain auction on April 9, took out an ad in the New York Times. Its nice to see Aron Meystedt and HA do the types of things that many domainers have wanted other auction houses to do for ye...
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Heritage Auctions Runs Ad in New York Times
Heritage Auctions who is scheduled to run their second ever domain auction on April 9, took out an ad in the New York Times. Its nice to see Aron Meystedt and HA do the types of things that many domainers have wanted other auction houses to do for ye...
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April 4, 2014, 4:48 pm

The Domains
Top 25 New gTLD By New Registration Yesterday
Here is a look at the top 25 new gTLD strings based on the number of new registrations yesterday as tracked by RegistrarStats.com: EDUCATION 546 PHOTOGRAPHY 502 EMAIL 460 REPAIR 368 SOLUTIONS 339 GURU&n...
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Top 25 New gTLD By New Registration Yesterday
Here is a look at the top 25 new gTLD strings based on the number of new registrations yesterday as tracked by RegistrarStats.com: EDUCATION 546 PHOTOGRAPHY 502 EMAIL 460 REPAIR 368 SOLUTIONS 339 GURU&n...
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April 4, 2014, 3:51 pm

The Domains
National Public Radio Covers The New gTLD’s
Several new gTLD applicants were interviewed for a National Public Radio (NPR) News piece out today that covers the new gTLD’s. NPR interviewed the applicant for .Wed as well as Daniel Negari from .XYZ Daniel is quoted as saying “.Com is...
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National Public Radio Covers The New gTLD’s
Several new gTLD applicants were interviewed for a National Public Radio (NPR) News piece out today that covers the new gTLD’s. NPR interviewed the applicant for .Wed as well as Daniel Negari from .XYZ Daniel is quoted as saying “.Com is...
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April 4, 2014, 3:37 pm

The Domains
Mittal.CEO Suspended After URS; No Site Was Up & Registrants Name Wasn’t Mittal
The new gTLD domain name, Mittal.ceo was just suspended by a Uniform Rapid Suspension Examiner Villamil Jimenez As we guessed the complainant was ArcelorMittal of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. The Complainant was submitted on March 26, 2014 and the decisio...
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Mittal.CEO Suspended After URS; No Site Was Up & Registrants Name Wasn’t Mittal
The new gTLD domain name, Mittal.ceo was just suspended by a Uniform Rapid Suspension Examiner Villamil Jimenez As we guessed the complainant was ArcelorMittal of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. The Complainant was submitted on March 26, 2014 and the decisio...
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April 4, 2014, 1:15 pm

The Domains
Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Announces Affiliate Program
Frank Schilling Uniregistry registrar side of the business has just announced its affiliate program that promises to pay commission just not on new gTLD registrations but for renewals as well: Frank of course just didn’t announce the affiliate ...
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Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Announces Affiliate Program
Frank Schilling Uniregistry registrar side of the business has just announced its affiliate program that promises to pay commission just not on new gTLD registrations but for renewals as well: Frank of course just didn’t announce the affiliate ...
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April 3, 2014, 2:42 pm

The Domains
Minds + Machines Issues New gTLD Update
In a press release sent out overnight, “The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) are pleased to provide an update on the launch programme of its portfolio of new top-level domains and the expansion of its registrar sales chann...
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Minds + Machines Issues New gTLD Update
In a press release sent out overnight, “The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) are pleased to provide an update on the launch programme of its portfolio of new top-level domains and the expansion of its registrar sales chann...
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April 3, 2014, 1:31 pm

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Out of The 1,735 .Builders Domains These Are My Favorite
I didn’t try to acquire domain names in the new gTLD of .Builders but I reviewed the zone file and found these 80 domains which are my favorite registrations in the TLD. According to ntldstats.com/tld there are 1,735 domain name registrat...
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Out of The 1,735 .Builders Domains These Are My Favorite
I didn’t try to acquire domain names in the new gTLD of .Builders but I reviewed the zone file and found these 80 domains which are my favorite registrations in the TLD. According to ntldstats.com/tld there are 1,735 domain name registrat...
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April 3, 2014, 1:29 pm

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Mark Karpeles Ordered to come to the US to discuss Mt. Gox Bankruptcy
Reuters reported that the Mark Karpeles has to come to the US to discuss the Mt.Gox Chapter 15 bankruptcy. The company filed bankruptcy in Japan but are also dealing with a class action filed in Chicago. Last month, Karpeles asked a Dallas court to ...
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Mark Karpeles Ordered to come to the US to discuss Mt. Gox Bankruptcy
Reuters reported that the Mark Karpeles has to come to the US to discuss the Mt.Gox Chapter 15 bankruptcy. The company filed bankruptcy in Japan but are also dealing with a class action filed in Chicago. Last month, Karpeles asked a Dallas court to ...
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April 3, 2014, 7:07 am

The Domains
HugeDomains.com Take UDRP Loss On AustinPain.com to Federal Court: We Say Good Get Em
HugeDomains.com, LLC, just filed a lawsuit against ROBERT P. WILLS, MD. PA, a Texas Professional Association d/b/a AUSTIN PAIN ASSOCIATES for a declaratory judgement arising out of the UDRP decision against it on the domain name AustinPain.com While ...
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HugeDomains.com Take UDRP Loss On AustinPain.com to Federal Court: We Say Good Get Em
HugeDomains.com, LLC, just filed a lawsuit against ROBERT P. WILLS, MD. PA, a Texas Professional Association d/b/a AUSTIN PAIN ASSOCIATES for a declaratory judgement arising out of the UDRP decision against it on the domain name AustinPain.com While ...
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April 3, 2014, 2:08 am

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35 Senators Demand Answers On NTIA Plan Of Giving Up Oversight of ICANN
35 U.S. Senators led by John Thune (R-S.D.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), asking a lot of questions (I count...
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35 Senators Demand Answers On NTIA Plan Of Giving Up Oversight of ICANN
35 U.S. Senators led by John Thune (R-S.D.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), asking a lot of questions (I count...
Discussion
April 2, 2014, 11:56 pm